Posted on 10/23/2007 4:20:59 PM PDT by Stoat
More than 100 boys and girls aged from seven to 11 were lined up from the fairest skinned to the darkest.
But the segregation left several of the pupil so upset they cried to their parents when they got home.
One angry mother said: "My 10-year-old was told to go further back in the line as she was not white enough. She came home devastated saying, 'I wish my skin was lighter mummy.'"
Another parent, Ann Andrew, 49, said her daughter, Angela, 10, came home in tears and said: "My school's so racist."
Dozens of parents have complained to Sandhurst Junior School in Lewisham. Headteacher Val Hughes said pupils had been divided up according to skin tone but claimed it was to make it easier for the photographer.
In a letter to Mrs Andrews she said: "Some classes were organised lightest to darkest skin tone and some darkest to lightest. This meant the photographer did not have to keep re-adjusting his reflector screens."
Parents are planning to protest to Lewisham council.
>> When we took pictures, we lined up by height, and I was ALWAYS last.
You mean, they made you stand in the back, behind the taller kids?
You have my permission to sue! :-)
We’d have to know the color of the photographer to help know just who has been insulted!
Dress it right, and cover down. 30 inches all around???
SOME of us were FORCED to stretch farther than others!
Good POINT!! Being at the end of the line in this case was seen as just like going to “the back of the bus”.
LOL! Those taller kids had to line up first in order to stand in the back. Maybe I’d better re-think this....
BUT...my dad always teased me about being so short. Maybe I’ll have to sue the government for allowing him to participate in raising me.
That’s it!
THERE’s my lottery!!!
I’ve got a girl in Kansas City,She’s got Bourbon , da da da dada,,what was this thread about..?
>> Ill have to sue the government for allowing him to participate in raising me. Thats it! THEREs my lottery!!!
:-)
That’s the spirit.
My parents taught me that if I studied and worked hard, I would /always/ be able to find someone to sue!
LOL!
In photography, lighting is king!
The school must have been paying the photographer by the hour.
(It takes time to set up lights and umbrellas and adjust them for group shots of people with widely varied skin tones)
If you get it right, its a beautiful “natural looking” photo.
If you get it wrong....
I'm in! All 5'2" of me.
Classs photos were always arranged by height when I was a kid. It seemed the quickest and most efficient way to go.
But that was a long time ago...
In schools, hysterical, nonsensical racial politics are king.
Sometimes it can be delightful to see the Left trip over the landmines that they have painstakingly installed in the avenues of society.
“It DOES make lighting of skin tones easier and better for the photographer”!
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http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/
At 5’0” I guess I’d still be last...
I’m the tallest?! A first.
LOL! Congratulations on finally making it...
My instant reaction. Duh!!
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